Mask Wearing & Presence of COVID in School Wastewater ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... @amjpublichealth.bsky.social "For every 10% increase in the percentage of observed individuals who were fully masked, the odds of detecting SARS-CoV-2 in school wastewater decreased by nearly 10%."

Trump has now elected liberals in Canada, Australia, and the Vatican

BREAKING: Rümeysa Öztürk released from ICE detention by a judge. “The decision is another blow to the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport international students for their speech,” writes @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

The new nom for surgeon general is a residency drop out, unlicensed, raw milk touting, “you have to buy $45 olive oil,” DIY ozempic, charlatan. She has made it her life’s mission to focus on luxury problems while ignoring the reality of MOST Americans in the US who can’t afford a carton of eggs.

The new nom for surgeon general is a residency drop out, unlicensed, raw milk touting, “you have to by $45 olive oil,” charlatan. She has made it her life’s mission to focus on luxury problems while ignoring the reality of MOST Americans in the US who can’t afford a carton of eggs.

Amid dropping vaccination rates, 25 children in New York State died from influenza during the 2024-25 flu season — more than in any recent flu season, state health authorities said on Wednesday.

I am a PICU attending who cares for children receiving life saving therapies through clinical trials. Frequently, the therapies are ONLY available through NIH funded clinical trials. The loss of life secondary to study closures is not just theoretical, it is measurable - the data never lies. #medsky

I wrote my first SBM article 4 years ago about how Vinay Prasad hid vital facts to encourage unvaccinated kids to get Covid, just before the delta variant arrived. Now he’s in charge. sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-vac...

🍿Movie rec!! 🎞️ Temple Grandin is an autistic scientist who revolutionized the cattle industry through her powerful observations of animal behavior. She was just named Woman of the Year by USA Today! Her story is extremely relevant today in light of attacks on autistic people and animal research.

Well that’s a choice.

Camps. They’re building camps. Whoever it starts with is not who it will end with. These will be big infrastructure and employment projects, a gaping maw that will need more and more souls to feed upon. Never again is now. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

MedSky pediatricians - join us on the PedSky feed! If you want to be added to have your posts automatically shared on the feed, let me know! bsky.app/profile/did:...

As a member of the select few who actually fill in/sign pediatric death certificates, I want to make one thing CRYSTAL CLEAR. Any sane PICU attending would write: “Cause of death: pneumonia Secondary to measles.” We have suffered 2 pediatric deaths. How many more need to die for people to SPEAK UP?!

How is this a surprise?

Instead of outlets doing how-to guides for Trump shredding the Constitution in search of a third term they could do how-to guides for Congress to impeach him for new actions every single day

They are LITERALLY kidnapping children/families off the streets. If this doesn’t completely disgust you, you need to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself if your reaction would be different if this was a Caucasian family who was abducted. The country would be in a standstill.

I’m just a girl, waiting by the phone, hoping RFK Jr. or Dr. Oz adds me to their Signal chat.

Outbreaks are complicated & it’s common we don’t get the level of info we want/need for causal relationships, but one thing I increasingly think about - the need for better prevention across all potential sources. We can & should invest in prevention (1/2)

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

"I don’t get paid if there’s a shutdown but shutting the government down and putting up a fight is preferable to giving in." "Every single one of my colleagues supports a shutdow." "Everyone I know in my office was hoping the Dems would grow a spine and shut the government down."

This is even worse than this article states (which is already alarming!!!). I highly recommend listening/watching the latest John Oliver piece on this. It is chilling.

1/My daughter goes to a DC public charter school. Every child in my neighborhood of public servants and academics goes to DCPS. If this 20%, 1bil cut to DCs budget passed the senate (WHICH IS 75% FUNDED BY DC TAX DOLLARS) passes the Senate, our schools, sanitation, clean water will be decimated

Try to put yourself in the shoes of this family. 💔Read their story: without judgement or malice, with open eyes and open minds. 💔Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children are NOT the enemy, they are the VICTIMS of misinformation. ❤️‍🩹Until we internalize this, there will be no way forward.

It is a new level of depravity to risk the lives of children in the next flu season 1) a child just died of a 💉preventable disease - measles 2) we are amidst the worst flu season since the 2015 swine flu epidemic This is a tragedy in its truest meaning. RFK - you should be ashamed of yourself.

From a DoD statement released yesterday, about the thing the Pentagon has been calling a threat multiplier for like three decades www.defense.gov/News/Release...

Not the Onion. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Doing great 👍

The people who wanted kids sick with covid are doing the same for measles. This is from the website of Jeffery Tucker, the child labor advocate behind Jay Bhattacharya and the GBD.

These kids have more guts than many of our representatives in Congress.

When North Korea thinks you’ve gone too far with crazy shit.

We MUST hold the administration accountable for an immediate restoration of the expunged health information. If they wont back down, neither will we. Thus far, the only “truth” this administration follows is their interpretation of truth, which falls far beyond the bounds of modern law or science.

If you are an NIH funded researcher at UCSF, the White House is quoting your colleague to tell the world everything will be just fine. Please make sure to thank him for easing your fears.

This is unconscionable. Apparently no one has brought a suit against the sex/gender EO yet. That needs to happen stat—anyone know anyone at ACLU? This must be challenged.

Dr Cassidy’s endorsement of RFK should be amended: “I’ve had intense conversations with Trump’s VP clarifying that I will get no RNC support if I vote 👎. Accordingly, I vote ✅ for RFK. We may have a new burden of 💉-preventable diseases, but at least our Froot Loops will have a few less ingredients!”

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund- popular with Middle East monarchies - so the U.S. can buy TikTok. That’s state-run media, folks. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

@schatz.bsky.social and @vanhollen.senate.gov: this is how you do it. www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...

I’m sorry but being “researched” by the New York post does not a fact make.

Asking for data on the efficacy and safety of the Hep B vaccine (which is available through a simple pubmed search) is a glaring reminder of RFKs mission: ignore the science/data and push an agenda that will sustainably fill his pockets. 💰This is not health, it’s wealth.

Samoan officials declined Kennedy's offer, and learned the hard way what happens when kids aren't vaccinated. What can it tell us about what Kennedy, as HHS Secretary, will do when vaccine rates fall and infectious disease spreads? Confirmation hearings are next week. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Kennedy is obsessed with these studies. He wrote a book arguing for trials that would withhold vaccines from kids, calling ethical concerns “a sham.” He consistently ignores the many good studies that have been done and relyies on bad and retracted research from anti-vaxxers. tinyurl.com/39taxurf

Also never reported: As measles spread, RFK Jr. coordinated with a local anti-vaccine activist—connecting him with a group of anti-vaxx doctors in the U.S. to treat Samoa’s sick children with unproven cures. As hospitals filled with dying children, Kennedy's group promoted vitamins over vaccines.

Samoa was on the brink of crisis. Vaccine rates had plummeted and measles was spreading globally. So Kennedy and his chief informatics officer (the data doc behind a notoriously bad study in the U.S.) went with an offer: a data system that would track the outcome of unvaxxed vs vaxxed kids.

The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

No one can quash the legacy of the Tuskegee Airman. Same for the Buffalo Soldiers. That unit was sent to West Point from 1907-1947 to replace an undisciplined white unit. During segregation, they trained all the white officers who fought in WWI & II & they built a legacy. We know their story.

About 40 top Trump + Biden officials last week met to plan for the next pandemic. They spent an hour on how to be ready for avian flu. RFK Jr skipped it. He was on Capitol Hill, lobbying senators to vote for him, and sharing vaccine theories.

I haven’t posted on my primary social media (insta) this week due to a combo of existential dread, taking care of critically ill kiddos on a 7 day stretch, time with my babies and a new addition to the fam ❤️ With each executive order and racist policy I say my mantra: “look for the helpers”